Bizarre Chester City fact - the 4-0 match was our only away League meeting ever and the week before the 1981 fifth round FA Cup tie at League leaders Ipswich. With Charlton trailing in the second half, the match was held up after a visiting supporter removed a corner flag and threw it out the ground.
[cite]Posted By: Airman Brown[/cite]With Charlton trailing in the second half, the match was held up after a visiting supporter removed a corner flag and threw it out the ground.
No doubt this ruffian is a respectable member of society now.
I believe the ruffian involved was 18, had drunk too much and for some unkown reason decided it was better taking on an inanimate object than some half welsh local.
As it was he spent the next half hour being chased round outside the ground by some irate locals - all it needed was the Benny Hill sound track.
[cite]Posted By: Addickted[/cite]I believe the ruffian involved was 18, had drunk too much and for some unkown reason decided it was better taking on an inanimate object than some half welsh local.
As it was he spent the next half hour being chased round outside the ground by some irate locals - all it needed was the Benny Hill sound track.
Or so I'm led to believe!
Lol, may well have known you him at the time, at least by sight, because there were not many Charlton there that day.
The Deva opened in 1992, first English football stadium to fulfil the safety recommendations from the Taylor Report, which was commissioned after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 according to Wiki. I visited Sealand but didn't see Charlton.
With maybe more to follow,Farsley Celtic,Cambridge United,Histon all on the verge of possibly going out of business.Overpaid players and limited crowds are not helping.Grays nearly went but are now okay
Portsmouth,Southend,Stockport,Macclesfield all in trouble,clubs need to be better managed.
Or being forced to chase the impossible dream because everyone else is. No one wants their club to be the only sensible one if that sensibility means they'll get relegated for sure.
Or being forced to chase the impossible dream because everyone else is. No one wants their club to be the only sensible one if that sensibility means they'll get relegated for sure.
No one's being forced in to anything and the fan's attitude is going to change very soon...
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Again, my comiserations to the people and fans of Chester City
If they can get use of the ground they should be OK.
Good luck to them
No doubt this ruffian is a respectable member of society now.
*Embarrassed smiley thing*
why did you do it ?
I seem to recall his dad/uncle/relative going nuts about it at the time.
As it was he spent the next half hour being chased round outside the ground by some irate locals - all it needed was the Benny Hill sound track.
Or so I'm led to believe!
Not shocked
Lol, may well have known you him at the time, at least by sight, because there were not many Charlton there that day.
Real shame about Chester.
Portsmouth,Southend,Stockport,Macclesfield all in trouble,clubs need to be better managed.
Dover athletic paying big wages and chasing the dream is a good example.
Or being forced to chase the impossible dream because everyone else is. No one wants their club to be the only sensible one if that sensibility means they'll get relegated for sure.
I am amazed at how a team in the lower reaches of the Conference North can amass debts of 750k!
Yep, my first thoughts too. They were a solid Conference side until last season, I think. Did they have to buy their ground or something like that?